A Descriptive Study to assess the level of satisfaction regarding Services provided by Anganwadi workers among Beneficiaries of Anganwadi Centres in Selected Rural Areas of District Jalandhar, Punjab, 2015

The first five years of life (and especially the first two years) have a great and lasting influence on the quality of life of a human being. Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme which was launched on 2^nd October 1975 in 33 community development blocks. The ICDS scheme was started in India with the objectives to improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years. Non Experimental, Descriptive Research Design is used to select 200 Beneficiaries of Anganwadi Centers from District Jalandhar Punjab. Simple Purposive sampling technique is used to select the samples. Result and Conclusion: Mean score of Satisfaction level of Beneficiaries and Standard deviation of total 200 sample were 66.82 ± 8.326 respectively Median of 200 samples was 66. Maximum, 119 (59.5%) beneficiaries had Neutral level of satisfaction, followed by 75 (37.5%) beneficiaries are satisfied and minimum 6 (3%) beneficiaries were unsatisfied regarding services provided by Anganwadi workers in the Anganwadi centres. Area wise, immunization area of the got first rank in satisfaction level of beneficiaries regarding services provided by Anganwadi workers with mean percentage of 92.96% and least mean percentage and six rank got by health checkups services that is 53.54%.